BBC Fall Fowl Over Foie Gras Promotion

For featuring foie gras on BBC2’s Great British Menu and for promoting foie gras recipes on a number of its webpages, PETA has sent a letter to the BBC demanding that all foie gras promotions be removed from the license payer–funded service.

“Using TV license money to promote foie gras – a product so uniquely vile that its production is banned in Britain – is indefensible”, says PETA’s Mimi Bekhechi. “The BBC has a responsibility to the public and should remove all foie gras promotions from its webpages and programmes.

” Foie gras is produced by force-feeding ducks and geese up to 2 kilograms of grain and fat every day through a tube that is shoved down their throats several times a day. Force-feeding birds such a massive amount causes their livers to swell to as much as 10 times their normal size, resulting in a disease known as “hepatic steatosis”. The pipes sometimes puncture the birds’ throats, and many birds suffer from ruptured internal organs, fungal and bacterial infections and liver failure.

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